Her Interactive is about to release a banger, on 7th of May! 🤯 After temporary fall from the most unfortunate entry, they rise from their knees and fly very high. Welcome 34th game in the series:
It's a HUGE upgrade, when you compare these cinematics with other ND visual novels. Can't wait to get a feel of the gameplay that they, most likely, improved in accordance to general feedback as well.
There is so much to do in and explore new locations: in 3D, no less! Essentially, you can have a ride to Prague as the detective Nancy Drew in this game and play brain crackers, haha. :blobcattea:
Despite me being positive about #ND34, the newest entry for #NancyDrew videogame series, there is a merit in finding how we've got here in the first place and if #HerInteractive is a trustworthy studio.
Right of the gate, we see the drastic difference in how previous, #ND33 game performed after successful 32 inclusions... It's darn #MID, if you ask me. :thisIsFine: So, it was being developed after the big #layoff in Her, where most positions got bestowed on a new crew. Only that it was going hand-in-hand with new CEO's delusion of a #passion mobile project. Add here a camp of the #fanbase which insists on a regular ND release schedule, #hustle culture, and you have a case of rushed development, #crunch and leaving everyone with a subpar ND game. If anything, I guess old crew was spared nerve cells in expense of new blood being under equally subpar direction - lucky to be fired, unlucky to be hired? Oof.
Das #ZDF hat eine Reportage zu den Arbeitsbedingungen bei #Daedelic veröffentlicht. Trotz sachlichem Ton ist es eine Anklage gegen #Crunch, Ausbeutung von Mitarbeiter*innen und Missmanagement.
Probleme, die auch in der Deutschen Gameswirtschaft viel zu weit verbreitet sind.
There are many large and #serious#problems in the world. Many people are victimized by the #system in a thousand different ways. This is not their story; it is not about their problems, but this should not be seen as minimizing them.
I'd like to talk about something a little closer to home: #employee#abuse in the #tech field. I've been in this field for <mumble> years and worked for tiny companies, medium consulting companies, large orgs, and as a one-man independent contractor.
Look, I still HATE clumsy writing of the "Character has a hard time limit In Story, but also just after we find out about that time we get all the side quests!"
The dumbest example is STILL #Cyberpunk2077 where you literally do not have access to the open world and 90% of the gameplay until AFTER you find out you will "absolutely certainly die in two weeks".
I guess I have to blame the idiotic writing on the #Crunch the management forced everyone thru? #Cyberpunk#RPG